Water pressure against tank height and tank water capacity

shoaibdr · #1 Jan 2, 2008, 11:44 PM

Normally the head pressure of water is .433 pounds per foot of head. Is there any change in pressure by changing the tank water capacity. e.g. if two tanks of 50ft height having water capacity of one is 10,000 gallons and other one has 20,000 gallons. What will be the water pressure difference between two tanks.

xcalibre · Apr 12, 2008, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Capuchin

No difference. The pressure changes with height of container, not width.

if the 2 containers were linked at their bottoms by a pipe, surely the 20000L tank would empty into the 10000L (given there's enough capacity) until they were both 15000L.

my understanding is that the 20000L tank would have to exert larger pressure than the 10000L tank in the pipe to accomplish this...



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